Mac for Linux Geeks

石头

作者：Tony Steidler-Dennison
出版日期：January 28, 2009
出版社：Apress
页数：298
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1430216506 ISBN-13: 978-1430216506
文件格式：PDF



Product Description
Some might say we all want Linux with an OS X GUI. Mac for Linux Geekswill assist you step by step in migrating from Linux–based systems toOS X. Dual booting, virtualization, and building out the Linuxenvironment on OS X are discussed in detail, along with a comparativeview of well–known Mac tools and their open source equivalents. Writtenfor daily use, this concise and dependable guide will steer you acrossthe technical landscape from your chosen Linux flavor to the OS Xpromised land.

• Live with OS X, but work with Linux tools.
• Make the OS X–Linux hybrid a reality.
• Use Mac tools where possible and free software where appropriate.

What you’ll learn

• Dual booting Linux on the Mac
• Creating a virtual Linux system on the Mac
• Understanding the OS X GUI
• Leveraging FOSS tools to meet the traditional Apple strengths of graphics and multimedia
• Performing routine OS X system administration for Linux administrators
• “Hybridizing” the Linux/Mac experience

Who is this book forWhether developer, system administrator or hobbyist geek, this bookguides all who want to migrate from Linux to OS X, helping to integrateboth operating system experiences.
About the Author
Tony Steidler–Dennison is a longtime Linux user, dating his firstexperience with Linux back to 1996. He’s used Linux as his soleoperating system at home, developed software on Linux systems, andadministered such systems in environments as diverse as robotictelescope control, online shopping, presidential politics, andcommercial aviation. Tony has coauthored two books on Linux and overthe years, he’s written more than a dozen magazine articles on topicsfrom Drupal and content management systems to podcasting with opensource tools. Since February 2005, he’s engineered and hosted “TheRoadhouse Podcast,” a weekly hour of “the finest blues you’ve neverheard.” Since the purchase of an Intel–based Mac Mini, Tony has becomeboth obsessed and fascinated with the operating system he calls “Linuxwith a pretty face.”
Tony is currently an avionics systems engineer with Rockwell Collins,Inc. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, engineering open source solutions in thecommercial aviation industry.